Joshua
יְהוֹשׁוּעַ · ye.ho.shu.a · H3091GἸησοῦς · Iēsous · G2424I2 other spellings“a savior; a deliverer” Hitchcock's 1869190 mentions in 10 books, most in Joshua (151)
Who he was
Joshua, the son of Nun, was a prominent figure in the Old Testament who served as Moses' assistant and later succeeded him as the leader of the Israelites. He was from the tribe of Ephraim (Numbers 13:8) and was originally named Hoshea, but Moses changed his name to Joshua (Numbers 13:16). Joshua was one of the twelve spies sent to explore the land of Canaan (Numbers 13:8), and he and Caleb were the only ones who brought back a positive report and encouraged the people to trust God (Numbers 14:6–9). As a result, Joshua and Caleb were the only adults from their generation permitted to enter the Promised Land (Num.14.30, 38).
Before Moses' death, God appointed Joshua to succeed him as the leader of Israel (Numbers 27:18–23; Deu.31.7-8, 14, 23). After Moses' death, Joshua led the Israelites across the Jordan River and into the land of Canaan (Joshua 1-4). He oversaw the conquest of Jericho (Joshua 6), Ai (Joshua 8), and numerous other cities and territories (Joshua 10-12). Joshua also led the Israelites in renewing their covenant with God (Jos.8.30-35; 24.1-28).
Under Joshua's leadership, the land of Canaan was divided among the tribes of Israel as their inheritance (Joshua 13-21). In his old age, Joshua gave a farewell address to the Israelites, encouraging them to remain faithful to God (Joshua 23-24). He died at the age of 110 and was buried in his inheritance at Timnath-serah (Joshua 24:29–30; Judges 2:8–9).
Joshua is remembered as a courageous leader, a faithful servant of God, and a key figure in Israel's history who led the people into the Promised Land and helped establish them as a nation.
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Every mention
190 references, counted from STEPBible, Tyndale House Cambridge · CC BY 4.0 · verse text: World English Bible (public domain)
Exodus7 mentions
Exodus 17:9Moses said to Joshua, “Choose men for us, and go out to fight with Amalek. Tomorrow I will stand on the top of the hill with God’s rod in my hand.”Exodus 17:10So Joshua did as Moses had told him, and fought with Amalek; and Moses, Aaron, and Hur went up to the top of the hill.Exodus 17:13Joshua defeated Amalek and his people with the edge of the sword.Exodus 17:14Yahweh said to Moses, “Write this for a memorial in a book, and rehearse it in the ears of Joshua: that I will utterly blot out the memory of Amalek from under the sky.”Exodus 24:13Moses rose up with Joshua, his servant, and Moses went up onto God’s Mountain.Exodus 32:17When Joshua heard the noise of the people as they shouted, he said to Moses, “There is the noise of war in the camp.”Exodus 33:11Yahweh spoke to Moses face to face, as a man speaks to his friend. He turned again into the camp, but his servant Joshua, the son of Nun, a young man, didn’t depart from the Tent.
Numbers12 mentions
Numbers 11:28Joshua the son of Nun, the servant of Moses, one of his chosen men, answered, “My lord Moses, forbid them!”Numbers 13:8Of the tribe of Ephraim, Hoshea the son of Nun.Numbers 13:16These are the names of the men who Moses sent to spy out the land. Moses called Hoshea the son of Nun Joshua.Numbers 14:6Joshua the son of Nun and Caleb the son of Jephunneh, who were of those who spied out the land, tore their clothes.Numbers 14:30surely you shall not come into the land concerning which I swore that I would make you dwell therein, except Caleb the son of Jephunneh, and Joshua the son of Nun.Numbers 14:38But Joshua the son of Nun and Caleb the son of Jephunneh remained alive of those men who went to spy out the land.Numbers 26:65For Yahweh had said of them, “They shall surely die in the wilderness.” There was not a man left of them, except Caleb the son of Jephunneh, and Joshua the son of Nun.Numbers 27:18Yahweh said to Moses, “Take Joshua the son of Nun, a man in whom is the Spirit, and lay your hand on him.Numbers 27:22Moses did as Yahweh commanded him. He took Joshua, and set him before Eleazar the priest and before all the congregation.Numbers 32:12except Caleb the son of Jephunneh the Kenizzite, and Joshua the son of Nun, because they have followed Yahweh completely.’Numbers 32:28So Moses commanded concerning them to Eleazar the priest, and to Joshua the son of Nun, and to the heads of the fathers’ households of the tribes of the children of Israel.Numbers 34:17“These are the names of the men who shall divide the land to you for inheritance: Eleazar the priest, and Joshua the son of Nun.
Deuteronomy9 mentions
Deuteronomy 1:38Joshua the son of Nun, who stands before you, shall go in there. Encourage him, for he shall cause Israel to inherit it.Deuteronomy 3:21I commanded Joshua at that time, saying, “Your eyes have seen all that Yahweh your God has done to these two kings. So shall Yahweh do to all the kingdoms where you go over.Deuteronomy 3:28But commission Joshua, and encourage him, and strengthen him; for he shall go over before this people, and he shall cause them to inherit the land which you shall see.”Deuteronomy 31:3Yahweh your God himself will go over before you. He will destroy these nations from before you, and you shall dispossess them. Joshua will go over before you, as Yahweh has spoken.Deuteronomy 31:7Moses called to Joshua, and said to him in the sight of all Israel, “Be strong and courageous, for you shall go with this people into the land which Yahweh has sworn to their fathers to…Deuteronomy 31:14Yahweh said to Moses, “Behold, your days approach that you must die. Call Joshua, and present yourselves in the Tent of Meeting, that I may commission him.” Moses and Joshua went, and…Deuteronomy 31:23He commissioned Joshua the son of Nun, and said, “Be strong and courageous; for you shall bring the children of Israel into the land which I swore to them. I will be with you.”Deuteronomy 32:44Moses came and spoke all the words of this song in the ears of the people, he and Joshua the son of Nun.Deuteronomy 34:9Joshua the son of Nun was full of the spirit of wisdom, for Moses had laid his hands on him. The children of Israel listened to him, and did as Yahweh commanded Moses.
Joshua151 mentions
Joshua 1:1Now after the death of Moses the servant of Yahweh, Yahweh spoke to Joshua the son of Nun, Moses’ servant, saying,Joshua 1:10Then Joshua commanded the officers of the people, saying,Joshua 1:12Joshua spoke to the Reubenites, and to the Gadites, and to the half-tribe of Manasseh, saying,Joshua 1:16They answered Joshua, saying, “All that you have commanded us we will do, and wherever you send us we will go.Joshua 2:1Joshua the son of Nun secretly sent two men out of Shittim as spies, saying, “Go, view the land, including Jericho.” They went and came into the house of a prostitute whose name was Rahab…Joshua 2:23Then the two men returned, descended from the mountain, crossed the river, and came to Joshua the son of Nun. They told him all that had happened to them.Joshua 2:24They said to Joshua, “Truly Yahweh has delivered all the land into our hands. Moreover, all the inhabitants of the land melt away before us.”Joshua 3:1Joshua got up early in the morning; and they moved from Shittim and came to the Jordan, he and all the children of Israel. They camped there before they crossed over.Joshua 3:5Joshua said to the people, “Sanctify yourselves; for tomorrow Yahweh will do wonders among you.”Joshua 3:6Joshua spoke to the priests, saying, “Take up the ark of the covenant, and cross over before the people.” They took up the ark of the covenant, and went before the people.Joshua 3:7Yahweh said to Joshua, “Today I will begin to magnify you in the sight of all Israel, that they may know that as I was with Moses, so I will be with you.Joshua 3:9Joshua said to the children of Israel, “Come here, and hear the words of Yahweh your God.”Joshua 3:10Joshua said, “By this you shall know that the living God is among you, and that he will without fail drive the Canaanite, the Hittite, the Hivite, the Perizzite, the Girgashite, the…Joshua 4:1When all the nation had completely crossed over the Jordan, Yahweh spoke to Joshua, saying,Joshua 4:4Then Joshua called the twelve men whom he had prepared of the children of Israel, a man out of every tribe.Joshua 4:5Joshua said to them, “Cross before the ark of Yahweh your God into the middle of the Jordan, and each of you pick up a stone and put it on your shoulder, according to the number of the…Joshua 4:8The children of Israel did as Joshua commanded, and took up twelve stones out of the middle of the Jordan, as Yahweh spoke to Joshua, according to the number of the tribes of the children…Joshua 4:9Joshua set up twelve stones in the middle of the Jordan, in the place where the feet of the priests who bore the ark of the covenant stood; and they are there to this day.Joshua 4:10For the priests who bore the ark stood in the middle of the Jordan until everything was finished that Yahweh commanded Joshua to speak to the people, according to all that Moses commanded…Joshua 4:14On that day, Yahweh magnified Joshua in the sight of all Israel; and they feared him, as they feared Moses, all the days of his life.Joshua 4:15Yahweh spoke to Joshua, saying,Joshua 4:17Joshua therefore commanded the priests, saying, “Come up out of the Jordan!”Joshua 4:20Joshua set up those twelve stones, which they took out of the Jordan, in Gilgal.Joshua 5:2At that time, Yahweh said to Joshua, “Make flint knives, and circumcise again the sons of Israel the second time.”Joshua 5:3Joshua made himself flint knives, and circumcised the sons of Israel at the hill of the foreskins.Joshua 5:4This is the reason Joshua circumcised them: all the people who came out of Egypt, who were males, even all the men of war, died in the wilderness along the way, after they came out of Egypt.Joshua 5:7Their children, whom he raised up in their place, were circumcised by Joshua, for they were uncircumcised, because they had not circumcised them on the way.Joshua 5:9Yahweh said to Joshua, “Today I have rolled away the reproach of Egypt from you.” Therefore the name of that place was called Gilgal to this day.Joshua 5:13When Joshua was by Jericho, he lifted up his eyes and looked, and behold, a man stood in front of him with his sword drawn in his hand. Joshua went to him and said to him, “Are you for us…Joshua 5:14He said, “No; but I have come now as commander of Yahweh’s army.” Joshua fell on his face to the earth, and worshiped, and asked him, “What does my lord say to his servant?”Joshua 5:15The prince of Yahweh’s army said to Joshua, “Take off your sandals, for the place on which you stand is holy.” Joshua did so.Joshua 6:2Yahweh said to Joshua, “Behold, I have given Jericho into your hand, with its king and the mighty men of valor.Joshua 6:6Joshua the son of Nun called the priests, and said to them, “Take up the ark of the covenant, and let seven priests bear seven trumpets of rams’ horns before Yahweh’s ark.”Joshua 6:8It was so, that when Joshua had spoken to the people, the seven priests bearing the seven trumpets of rams’ horns before Yahweh advanced and blew the trumpets, and the ark of Yahweh’s…Joshua 6:10Joshua commanded the people, saying, “You shall not shout nor let your voice be heard, neither shall any word proceed out of your mouth until the day I tell you to shout. Then you shall…Joshua 6:12Joshua rose early in the morning, and the priests took up Yahweh’s ark.Joshua 6:16At the seventh time, when the priests blew the trumpets, Joshua said to the people, “Shout, for Yahweh has given you the city!Joshua 6:22Joshua said to the two men who had spied out the land, “Go into the prostitute’s house, and bring the woman and all that she has out from there, as you swore to her.”Joshua 6:25But Rahab the prostitute, her father’s household, and all that she had, Joshua saved alive. She lives in the middle of Israel to this day, because she hid the messengers whom Joshua sent…Joshua 6:26Joshua commanded them with an oath at that time, saying, “Cursed is the man before Yahweh who rises up and builds this city Jericho. With the loss of his firstborn he will lay its…Joshua 6:27So Yahweh was with Joshua; and his fame was in all the land.Joshua 7:2Joshua sent men from Jericho to Ai, which is beside Beth Aven, on the east side of Bethel, and spoke to them, saying, “Go up and spy out the land.” The men went up and spied out Ai.Joshua 7:3They returned to Joshua, and said to him, “Don’t let all the people go up, but let about two or three thousand men go up and strike Ai. Don’t make all the people to toil there, for there…Joshua 7:6Joshua tore his clothes, and fell to the earth on his face before Yahweh’s ark until the evening, he and the elders of Israel; and they put dust on their heads.Joshua 7:7Joshua said, “Alas, Lord Yahweh, why have you brought this people over the Jordan at all, to deliver us into the hand of the Amorites, to cause us to perish? I wish that we had been…Joshua 7:10Yahweh said to Joshua, “Get up! Why have you fallen on your face like that?Joshua 7:16So Joshua rose up early in the morning and brought Israel near by their tribes. The tribe of Judah was selected.Joshua 7:19Joshua said to Achan, “My son, please give glory to Yahweh, the God of Israel, and make confession to him. Tell me now what you have done! Don’t hide it from me!”Joshua 7:20Achan answered Joshua, and said, “I have truly sinned against Yahweh, the God of Israel, and this is what I have done.Joshua 7:22So Joshua sent messengers, and they ran to the tent. Behold, it was hidden in his tent, with the silver under it.Joshua 7:23They took them from the middle of the tent, and brought them to Joshua and to all the children of Israel. They laid them down before Yahweh.Joshua 7:24Joshua, and all Israel with him, took Achan the son of Zerah, the silver, the robe, the wedge of gold, his sons, his daughters, his cattle, his donkeys, his sheep, his tent, and all that…Joshua 7:25Joshua said, “Why have you troubled us? Yahweh will trouble you today.” All Israel stoned him with stones, and they burned them with fire and stoned them with stones.Joshua 8:1Yahweh said to Joshua, “Don’t be afraid, and don’t be dismayed. Take all the warriors with you, and arise, go up to Ai. Behold, I have given into your hand the king of Ai, with his people…Joshua 8:3So Joshua arose, with all the warriors, to go up to Ai. Joshua chose thirty thousand men, the mighty men of valor, and sent them out by night.Joshua 8:9Joshua sent them out; and they went to set up the ambush, and stayed between Bethel and Ai on the west side of Ai; but Joshua stayed among the people that night.Joshua 8:10Joshua rose up early in the morning, mustered the people, and went up, he and the elders of Israel, before the people to Ai.Joshua 8:13So they set the people, even all the army who was on the north of the city, and their ambush on the west of the city; and Joshua went that night into the middle of the valley.Joshua 8:15Joshua and all Israel made as if they were beaten before them, and fled by the way of the wilderness.Joshua 8:16All the people who were in the city were called together to pursue after them. They pursued Joshua, and were drawn away from the city.
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Judges6 mentions
Judges 1:1After the death of Joshua, the children of Israel asked of Yahweh, saying, “Who should go up for us first against the Canaanites, to fight against them?”Judges 2:6Now when Joshua had sent the people away, the children of Israel each went to his inheritance to possess the land.Judges 2:7The people served Yahweh all the days of Joshua, and all the days of the elders who outlived Joshua, who had seen all the great work of Yahweh that he had worked for Israel.Judges 2:8Joshua the son of Nun, the servant of Yahweh, died, being one hundred ten years old.Judges 2:21I also will no longer drive out any of the nations that Joshua left when he died from before them;Judges 2:23So Yahweh left those nations, without driving them out hastily. He didn’t deliver them into Joshua’s hand.
1 Chronicles1 mention
What the dictionary says
Jehovah is his help, or Jehovah the Saviour.
Easton's Bible Dictionary (1897)
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